Job 20:12-23

¹²"They savor evil as a delicacy, roll it around on their tongues,

¹³Prolong the flavor, a dalliance in decadence--real gourmets of evil!

¹⁴But then they get stomach cramps, a bad case of food poisoning.

¹⁵They gag on all that rich food; God makes them vomit it up.

¹⁶They gorge on evil, make a diet of that poison--a deadly diet--and it kills them.

¹⁷No quiet picnics for them beside gentle streams with fresh-baked bread and cheese, and tall, cool drinks.

¹⁸They spit out their food half-chewed, unable to relax and enjoy anything they''ve worked for.

¹⁹And why? Because they exploited the poor, took what never belonged to them.

²⁰"Such God--denying people are never content with what they have or who they are; their greed drives them relentlessly.

²¹They plunder everything but they can''t hold on to any of it.

²²Just when they think they have it all, disaster strikes; they''re served up a plate full of misery.

²³When they''ve filled their bellies with that, God gives them a taste of his anger, and they get to chew on that for a while.